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Grab Your Girls and Celebrate Your Curls: CurlFest Returns to Brooklyn This Saturday!
New York naturalistas, where you at? If you’re a devoted member of #TeamNatural, you’re hopefully already familiar with the experiential marketing group known as the Curly Girl Collective, and if you live in the New York City tri-state area, this is the weekend to take part in the largest celebration of natural hair in the…
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Level Up: The Latest Lyst Index Indicates That Black Influence Is Finally Being Recognized
Keep on risin’ to the top! Today, global fashion search platform Lyst released its second 2018 installment of The Lyst Index, its quarterly report ranking the fashion industry’s most in-demand labels and products. Analyzing the online shopping habits of over 5 million shoppers monthly spanning approximately 12,000 global retailers and labels, Lyst compiled their results…
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Burberry Burning? British Retailer Reportedly Torched Over $33 Million of Unsold Merchandise
Burberry, baby. What is you doing? Understandably, high-end brands want to keep their cache (and fashion plagiarism is a very real thing), but the British luxury retailer Burberry has taken protecting their brand to new extremes, reportedly burning over $33 million in unsold merchandise rather than sell it at discount or donate it. This is…
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Whose Hand is This? Korean Company Gets Inclusivity Wrong with a Blackface Manicure
When keeping it inclusive goes wrong: popular Korean beauty and fashion company Stylenanda’s heart was likely in the right place when it attempted to show diversity in a nail polish ad by placing a brown hand next to a much paler one. But something was a little … off. If you’re still guessing what’s wrong…
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For the Kulture: Cardi B's Little Princess Has a Crib Fit for a Queen
Apparently, nothing’s too good for rap royalty’s newest little princess, including a custom-made crib topped with a crown, which Cardi B showed off to her Instagram fans on Thursday. The elaborately carved and gilded gold-and-white oval crib—with a whimsical gold and white polka-dotted mattress cover—was created by custom furniture and decor company Kapesh Designs and…
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Harlem Renaissance: Gucci-Dapper Dan Goes Live!
We’ve been buzzing about the renaissance of the Harlem-based designer known as Dapper Dan so long, it’s hard to believe that his much-anticipated collaboration with former nemesis Gucci only launched this week. After all, we’ve been seeing teases for months: in Beyoncé’s tour wardrobe, on any number of red carpets, and most recently, on both…
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Royal Roundup: In Her 2nd Month as Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle's Style Hits Its Stride
When we watched Meghan Markle make three wardrobe changes in one day last week, it became clear that we weren’t going to be able to keep up. And why should we? Now exactly two months into her marriage to Prince Harry, it’s much more interesting to assess the new royal’s evolving royal style as a…
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Harlem and Hijabs: Model Adesuwa Aighewi Turns Director With a Celebration of Muslim Beauty
When Adesuwa Aighewi opened the Chanel couture show in early July with her locs flowing over her Lagerfeld-designed suit, heads turned. But Aighewi created another head-turning moment, making her production and directorial debut in a short film for Love magazine, celebrating the incomparable beauty of Muslim culture through a group of Harlem women raised in…
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The Apocalypse is Nigh: Crocs Created a High Heel
Just when you were wondering what the 53 percent would be wearing to vote in this year’s midterm elections, Crocs has the answer, creating a high heel so that they can continue to vote against their self-interests in style. I kid, I kid … kind of. But seriously: As if it wasn’t terrifying enough when…
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Free Wigs 4 Kids: How One Woman Is Restoring Children's Confidence, One Wig at a Time
Hair is Quilla Bohannon’s passion; it has been since she was a schoolgirl, feigning attending after-school extracurricular activities so she could braid the hair of her classmates for extra spending money, as she told The Glow Up: I like to say I got the gift of doing hair from my grandmother. … The first time…
